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Housing Association bidding system

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GypsyMoth · 03/11/2009 23:39

anyone got a property in this way?

have just bidded on 3 houses tonight,but am 13/13 th in queue,so doesn't sound very likely

wondering if anyone else has experience of this system?

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GypsyMoth · 04/11/2009 09:25

nobody?

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me23 · 04/11/2009 12:23

are you currently in council/HA property? if so you are much more likely to get a place by doing a mutual exchange. Go to www.homeswapper.co.uk I registered 6 months ago and am doing a 4 way swap to a nice 2 bed house so hopefully moving next month.

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GypsyMoth · 04/11/2009 12:25

yes,i'm registerd with them. not had any luck as we need to go from 3 bed to a 4....and stay local. everyone wants to move to cornwall it seems!

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PoppyIsApain · 04/11/2009 12:26

I have been bidding for 2 years and nothing, i cant get private as i cant afford it and bad credit for mortgage, i am over crowded with ds and dh living in my mums place, i dont think it is a fair system TBH and people can be on it ages and then a new candidate gets the house
good luck though

LadyOfTheFlowers · 04/11/2009 12:27

Does the swap system apply if you own half of your HA house? Well, have a mortgage on half of it?

truthisinthewine · 04/11/2009 12:28

We have our house via the bidding system, we were registered for about 16 months and took the first house offered to us. If there was only 13 bids then seems like you have a good chance of getting somewhere at some point.

We used to live in a city 2 hours away from here and we were also on their housing list but they used to get at least 300+ bids per house and there was hardly any chance of being re-housed there.

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GypsyMoth · 04/11/2009 12:28

thanks.

we have 2 new building sites locally....new houses being released in phases,so was hopeful. they are all out of the way places with no public transport yet....was hoping that would put alot of people off!

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me23 · 04/11/2009 12:29

it is really tough I was on homeswapper every day for 6 months constantly looking! 3 or 4 way swaps give you more of a chance of getting what you want.
Hopefully you will get somewhere with the bidding too.
Good luck.

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GypsyMoth · 04/11/2009 12:31

i bid on 3 identical new build houses..all 4 beds,more going on soon.

at least someone else can benefit with gaining this house i have now.

not sure about rent to buy schemes. or part mortgage

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Seededbiatch · 04/11/2009 12:32

I have no experience of the bid system but I did complete a 3 way swap a year ago but it took me about 14 months of hard graft and looking for swaps virtually everyday on every swap site going and I was also quite flexible(in the end) with where I moved to.

You just have to keep trying, it will happen eventually but it isn't a quick process.

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GypsyMoth · 04/11/2009 13:21

theb bidding system here only came in in june this year. everyone had to re apply. mess about collecting all documents,passport photos the lot!! so kind of hoping not as many people have got registered yet

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PoppyIsApain · 04/11/2009 18:14

Due to this thread i have emailed my council twice in a rather arsey manner, i have not achieved anything but feel damn better LOL

nappyaddict · 10/11/2009 01:56

I've been bidding since May 2008. I actually applied September 2007 but the council lost my application so I had to start all over again

I have 77 points and the lowest in the queue I've been so far is 3rd. I was actually offered a property for which I was 11th in the queue but the letter got lost in the post and turned up months later ... I wish there was an exasperated emoticon on here lol.

I don't know why I got offered it when I was 11th in queue and places where I've been as low as 3rd in queue I haven't though. This week I am first in the queue for one house so fingers crossed.

BlackLetterDay · 10/11/2009 02:40

We got our house via bidding on the second cycle after it had been introduced. Was lucky for us really as we had arrears (only £100) and had no chance via the traditional system, think we had been on the transfer list about 16 months. The council agreed to give us a house if we paid half of the arrears as we were quite overcrowded (me, dp and 2dc in a 1 bed flat). There wasn't a huge amount of bids on this house though, due to the system being new and also it was Christmas, we viewed the house on christmas eve and moved in 2nd January, which was a mare as we were skint.

Good luck you will get there in the end, my sister was bidding for ages even though her and her dd were kipping in the living room of my other sisters 1 bed flat at the time, she has a nice 2 bed house now.

Jennylee · 10/11/2009 09:21

I wish we had that system here, I'm in scotland west lothian and the only chance is homeswapper, but all I get is messed around and waste time looking on it every day, either that or the council will give me 150 points for the kids sharing, and then oh about 10 years later we might get a bigger house, you need 400 points to get a house and then my cousin has been waiting 2 years already on the highest points, there are just no houses.

thought I was getting a 3 way swap but ine party was messing us around and wanting at least £500 to take the other house and he talked of stripping his house and taking light switches so we left it, he also ignored calls and the other 2 talked bad about each other and disagreed too much so I left it. also dh makes it worse won't accept lots of areas he considers bad. wait untill next eyar when we will have 2 small bedrooms an 11 yr old boy a 2 year old girl and a newborn, sotry about the highjack of thread

me23 · 10/11/2009 11:09

It's so diffcult my friend has 3 2 boys and 1 girl dc in a 1 bedroom flat and the council won't offer her a bigger place nor has she got many points on the list it's outrageous

Jennylee · 10/11/2009 17:13

I was joking they should should put 'don't have more kids' on the tenancy agreement as the council will not help you to get a bigger property, so many people I talk to think the council have an obligation to give us a bigger house but its just not true.

nappyaddict · 19/11/2009 20:48

Well I got a letter delivered today asking me to view a house ... today at 10am

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GypsyMoth · 04/12/2009 15:05

how was it nappyaddict? did you take it??

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